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Word of warning to new people who read OP's post. Take it with a pinch of salt
Agree, From someone who has played since launch as a casual player but has done about every bit of content
1) There's no denying there, compared to other things in the market, GW2 looks worse and runs worse too. ArenaNet will do nothing about it so whoever can't live with frame drops, stay away from this.
2) Yes, buying expansions and living story episodes is needed for the full game, there's no way around that. Bag slots though have got to be one of the most useless things in the game. Unless someone really really enjoys carrying their entire bank with them, there is absolutely no need to ever buy them... especially with bags going as high as 32 slots each. Bank slots can be useful but 1-2 extra are gonna be more than enough for most people out there.
3) Gold is actually quite easy to make. Why would the materials that aren't related to mobs, drop from them? How is it logical for me to kill a worm and get a piece of wood as loot? Mobs drop appropriate materials based on the type of mob they are. Ores, plants and woods come from gathering and gathering. Doing world bosses has got to be one of the most inefficient ways in the game to make gold. World events too. There are specific metas in the game that can be quite lucrative for those that enjoy grinding stuff like that.
Dungeons have been abandoned by ArenaNet because Fractals got introduced, an arguably better form of dungeons all around. Most people don't do them not because of the bugs but because they pay less compared to even tier 1 fractals (which is baby difficulty by the way, not RIDDICULOUSLY hard).
4) You can buy exotics directly from the trading post and as if you want to craft exotics instead of buying them, something is really really wrong with you. There isn't a single piece of exotic gear that is gonna be cheaper if you craft it instead of buying it. Ascended can't be bought from the trading post, their individual parts can but to put them together you need to have the appropriate crafting discipline leveled all the way to max. For people that gather a lot, like me, putting ascended together isn't a big issue. If you wanna grind gold for them but don't even know what's efficient with making gold, that's hardly a fault with the game. Legendary gear is nothing but shiny skins and some QoL, nothing more. Stat wise, it's exactly the same as ascended gear so unless someone wants to grind for legendaries, there is absolutely nothing in the game that needs them. They aren't mandatory in any kind of way.
5) Best looking skins are from the gems store? Suuuuure.... in reality though, no. Those are mostly generic or way over the top. Best thing you can do if you wanna look nice is mix and match in-game skins. Given the variety of skins you can earn in-game, there is little to no need to ever touch the gem store for them. Mounts and gliders aside as those don't exist without gems.
6) Again, wrong. High tier fractals are impossible to be done in exotic gear since you can't slot agony resistance in them, which is why ascended gear exists. Everything else, doesn't need it. Good to have but nobody will fail without it if their skills are up to par. If your only metric of this is looking at the speed raiding builds then again that's your own issue. Those are min maxed to do one thing and one thing only... kill bosses as fast as possible while being part of a group that keeps you alive. They are not the only way to clear content.
7) Healers actually do work the same as in other games I've played. Push button - use skill - people get healed. Not sure what you consider to be different. Most things in the game still don't require a healer by the way, people may bring one to account for those that may not be familiar with the mechanics of the fight or can't really stay alive as having less dps and killing a little slower is faster than wiping again and again and again.
8) It does have a ton of currencies, yes. They aren't hard to get though, none of them. Just play on the map the currency you want belongs to and you'll be having more than you need quite fast.
9) "Rewarding content" depends very much on each person. Some enjoy raids, others like fractals, others just like doing open world events and metas. Just like anything else in literally any other multiplayer game out there, if you enjoy doing something a lot, you end up with a group that you do it with all the time. Not sure why you try to present that as a negative about Guild Wars. The 500-600 gold weapons are precursors by the way needed to craft the legendary equivalent and they have absolutely nothing more than the 1-2 gold exotic you can buy.
10) What a surprise, the game isn't as popular as it was when it was first released years ago. WVW can still be active and the large scale battles as still around but it doesn't have as many people playing it as it did a few years ago. So you can't find them all around during the day but if you play on sensible times for Europe (not sure how it is in the US), you will find the blobs.
11) The story is mediocre at best in 99% of the MMOs out there so it's kinda the expected for anyone that plays them. SJW agendas... I will advice you to go play some older games and stop following the sheep mentality. the "SJW" things always existed in games, people were just smarter back then too... nowadays, lack of research and taking everything at face value seems to be the norm though.
I am bored to even read that back to check for potential errors so if they exist... they will remain there for as long as Steam is around.
I've never said that monsters should be dropping materials that aren't related to them. Stop trying to distort what i said. The high the tier of the fractals, the better the reward. The Fractals that need like 25+ agony resistance have monster that take 90% of your HP with one hit, which is ridiculous. "Just don't get hit bro" That's not an argument.
"gold is easy to make"
No, it isn't if you are not doing the hard content in the game with a GOOD team/group and if you don't have an optimized rotation/organization too. Or you are talking abour selling scraps each day for like 50s and you say THAT is a good way to make gold fast? lol
"Again, wrong. High tier fractals are impossible to be done in exotic gear since you can't slot agony resistance in them, which is why ascended gear exists."
But that's exactly what i said... You need ascended for Fractals.
"Currencies aren't hard to come by"
Good luck trying to complete the collections and achievments for the dungeons since people and the devs don't care about them anymore. One of the best ways to gear yourself in Exotic gear was by doing dungeons and getting the tokens to buy the gear, also Globs of Ectoplasm were way easier to acquire by dismantling the Exotic gear you got by using the tokens. Now, the casual or semi-casual can't even get them anymore and has to buy from the TP with gold instead of using the dungeon currency (tokens). Again, the devs instead of making the game fun by allowing you to farm for something directly, just want you to grind/farm GOLD instead. The devs want to make gold hard to come by so people can buy GEMS with REAL MONEY and then convert to GOLD. They need people to buy GEMS because otherwise they won't make money with the game.
"skins"
Dude, the skins of the Store are everything but generic. They have way more details. Also, you can have a wide variety of skins from gear that is cheap but the skin itself is cheap in looks, it's gonna be some scale looking armor or some leather, the more detailed and stylish ones are way more expensive, specially the weapons. A normal fire looking greatsword skin goes for 200g.
They don't talk to their playerbase about anything meaningful. It felt like they reluctantly revealed EoD as a panic move more than anything else due to the failure that was Icebrood Saga
Instead of coming up with new ideas & slowly improving on them they just keep throwing ♥♥♥♥ at the wall & hoping it sticks. There's so much stuff in the game that they've abandoned it's not even funny anymore
Their business model is a tad scummy when it comes to new players. Sure, you get HoT for free with PoF... but there's no mention that S3/S4/Icebrood Saga are additional purchases. Icebrood Saga is even included as a selling point on their store page when in fact new players won't actually get Icebrood Saga... they get access to buy it
Then the biggest problem of all is the game runs like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 99% of the time. They don't even acknowledge it. They still stand by that DX9 is fine & upgrading API wouldn't change how well the game runs... which we all know is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lie due to the fact
Megai2's d912pxy & Doitsujin's dxvk make the game somewhat playable nowadays
Yeah... totally an Anet fanboy
You need ascended for HIGH TIER Fractals. By the time you're ready to do them odds are you would've had Ascended gear drop from working your way up
Have you ever opened a Dungeon LFG? That ♥♥♥♥ fills up in a few min half the time (Besides Arah... cos ♥♥♥♥ Arah)
& for both points. Join a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guild. That's the bloody point of them
What qualifies as a crafting material for you then if not the obvious ones? Mobs drop what would be normal for them to drop.
The higher the tier the better the reward, yeah. But if you think tier 2 is high and you lose 90% of your HP in 1 hit, maybe it's time to learn how to actually play the game instead? Because if you lose that much HP in tier 2, something is seriously wrong with your build. Which again, reflects nothing to the actual game, but on your skills. Unlike WoW, you don't get to sit on 1 spot pretending to be a BDSM master, asking the boss to punish you harder, you avoid the damage. That's the way the game is designed to play, you not wanting to dodge or mitigate the damage via skills is not the game's issue.
Gold IS easy to make. Anyone currently playing the game will tell you that and no, you don't need raids or T4 fractals to make gold. Metas are fast enough. Play the actual game and then come tell me again how you can't make gold from them.
No, you didn't say you need ascended for fractals, you said it's needed for hard content, which is quite different. Raids are tougher than fractals and can be cleared in exotic if the people are competent. The only reason why ascended is needed in fractals is due to the actual mechanic in fractals.
Again, you show how much you actually don't know about the game. You can get exotic gear with karma in Orr or with map currency in The Silverwastes, or by doing metas in various maps etc If one doesn't want to pay, they don't have to. But it's no more than 20-25 gold to be fully geared in exotics... not a big cost really. And you can still farm the dungeons by the way. The focus may have been shifted from them but there are still people that do them for achievements or skins. As for ecto... I can make more by doing a meta than by running dungeons for currency to buy gear and salvage it. Exotic gear is really easy to come by which is why is so ridiculously cheap.
And, to nobody's surprise, you are dead wrong again on the skins. Seriously, play the game and you'll see for yourself how out of date your narrative is.
You also signed off with the most lazy comment ever. No one has ever heard that in the 8 years of Guild Wars 2
Have you played the game in the last 3-4 years? Because I really have a feeling you stopped playing when HoT released, or before that, and you still pretend to know everything about it. Things aren't at all as you present them to be.
Guild Wars 2 was released in 2012 and was fairly ambitious at the time. The optimisation suffer and that's true. The dev won't redo the engine because that's just too much work. If your computer don't have a lot of proc and a bunch of RAM you're going to need to put the quality on low especially when doing content that involve a lot of players.
The free to play version include the base game and living world season 2 maps. That's enough for people to get familiar with the game and decide wherever or not they like the game enough to invest in the very cheap expansions 30€ for PoF+HoT+LWS5, 16€ for LWS2, 12€ for LWS3 and 12€ for LWS4. A total of 70€ for all the content. Anyway, the game is very clear on what you get and don't get with the free 2 play version.
The base amount of bag slot get increased when you get the expansions, and the expansions allow you to get 32 slots bags. greatly decreasing the stress on your inventory.
Daily quests : 2 gold.
Doing Tequatl: 1 gold.
Doing Ley Line anomaly daily quest: 1 mystic coin (currently worth about 2g on tp)
So that's 5 gold a day at the very least just doing daily stuff. If you have the expansion and access to pact supply agents you can make an additional 15-19 gold a week for doing the pact scout mapping materials.
Not even taking into accounts laurels/mystic coins you get from daily connexion that can be converted to gold too.
Also a point of advice that is commonly used for beginners needing gold is to sell their mats. The material storage of a player that don't pay too much attention can be worth hundreds of gold of rare mats.
That's plain wrong. The lake doric leather farm for example is exactly based on the concept of farming as much bags from regular mob as possible.
Same with halloween labyrinth farm.
More recently ArenaNet cracked down on bots that were mostly afk farming mobs for gold.
Regardless I'm not sure what you expect here since per convention in most theme park MMO quest/events/dungeons/raids are always supposed to be more rewarding that plain mob bashing.
The raw gold you get from events is generally worth less than the mats and equipment you loot from it.
The best and easiest way to farm gold is to join a public squad doing a meta map, the requirement are generally low, you just have to follow the commander and tag as much mobs as possible.
Dungeons are old content and not as efficient to farm as other content so obviously less player are attracted to it after 8 years. You can still fairly easily find a run for it.
As for raids and fractals they're harder content that require knowing how to play your class and build approprietly. You can pug raids as long as you and the group know the mechanics and aren't completely brain dead. I don't know why you expect harder end game content to be easy to do? That's not the point.
Crafting most exotic set can be done in a day, of course that's if you have the currency on hand. Because once again, farming all the mats you need yourself is going to take forever. That's nothing new.
Also GW2 crafting allow you to craft the best tier of equipment in the game (ascended) which will take you a while for your first set and probably a lot less for any other set. The time gated material are a pain but guess what, you can still buy them in gold (and they're also a nice source of daily profit if you don't need them).
Only about half of the legendary weapon are tradeable and therefore can be bought on the TP. Unsurprisingly their price is prohibitive because crafting them take a ♥♥♥♥ load of time and mats, they're supposed to be a long term goal to work for and require a large amount of preparation to craft.
Also worth noting that legendary tier have the same stats as ascended tier. If you want to get stronger go for ascended not legendary.
Congratulation on figuring out supply and demand, cool skin are often rare and expensive mostly because they're cool. Worth noting that a lot of the gems skins are not necessarily account bound and can be traded on the TP. Aka you can buy gemstore skins for gold without necessarily needing to convert gems.
The diference between ascended and exotic stats is 6%. You can do the overwhelming majority of content with exotic gear. Provided that your skill build don't sucks and you know how to use it.
Translation, most people will do DPS, and support/tank/healer build are only mandatory for the higher difficulty content.
Most of GW2 content is extremely easy.
Most of the currency can be farmed in multiple ways and require you to play the game in area where those currency drop. I know you're expecting to be handed everything on a silver platter but this is a MMO you're expected to invest time into the game to get stuff. You won't get giganticly rich sitting on your ass doing nothing.
One of the oldest gold farm in the game available to F2P players is the silverwaste farm. The requirement are simple:
Join a squad with a commander. Equip a ranged weapon for convenience. Follow the commander attacking every mob that you encounter. Low damage is actually better because it means more people can tag the mobs.
Skill level and coordination required: An aggressive lemming could do it.
Most meta event farm require you to follow a commander and do what you're told and they're generally the best gold/h you can get.
WvW has an active community but sadly the dev clearly don't know what to do with the game mode. Which is a shame because it was such a fun and amazing game mode.
The story is a MMO story, you're the chosen one, you're here to save the world and kick ass. It's an ok story. Talking about SJW stuff says more about what a clown you are than anything else tbh.
Note on pvp: You can access it at lvl 2 (after the tutorial basically) and in pvp arena your character will be lvl 80 with all skills/weapon type and stats available (you won't get spec if you don't own the expansion tho).
A slight correction here as the website is quite misleading. Despite LS5 being listed under the things you obtain by paying for the expansion, if you hover over it it's the same deal as with the other seasons. You gain access to the latest and any future episodes but whatever you missed, you have to buy separately.
https://i.imgur.com/7OMWFsA.png
There is a DX12 mod that can increase performance and graphical quality significantly. It's incredibly simple to install and is totally harmless.
Add in a ReShade profile to this and you can have GW2 looking like FFXIV very easily. I prefer the aesthetics of GW2 to FFXIV, so I think it looks significantly better.
As for the bulk of the performance issues, my i7-8700K clocks in at 3.7GHz out of the box. With the exception of GW2, this CPU runs anything and everything just fine. This is because GW2 utilizes single core architecture. At 3.7GHz, doing META events can be discouraging, the game can and will crawl during world events. After OC'ing my CPU to 4.6GHz, the only time I suffer from frame drops in game now is when the META in Auric Basin ends and everyone converges to loot Tarir. Even then, it will level out and be fine after about 20-30 seconds.
I don't have impressive hardware at all to achieve this (see below). I want to say I built this PC about 3-4 years ago. I get a constant 60+ frames as I play, at least. If you'd like more info please reach out to me privately, I'd be glad to assist as much as I can.
i7-8700K
ASUS PRIME Z370-A mobo
*MSI GTX 1080, 8GB
16GB of RAM, utilizing XMP on my mobo to get the max advertised speed for my RAM, 3222.
Windows 10 64-bit
2560x1440 resolution
Freesync on and working
1 tower fan mounted on top of the CPU, 1 case fan to pull the air from that fan out of the case.
I am aware of the mod but I typically don't take those into consideration when I talk about a game. They are extras, not what the developers designed and there are always people that don't wanna deal with them or don't know how to. The game out of the box performs pretty badly for its age and the visuals it has.
I am also familiar with the cause of the issue and while I do know a high clocked CPU will be able to handle it, that again isn't realistically something I would ever suggest. Other than the fact that most people run cheaper CPUs than ones that cost 350-400€ (on release), even among those running them not everyone knows how to overclock. And then you have to take into consideration prebuilt systems that sometimes pair Intel K CPUs with the most basic chipset available for the motherboards making overclocking something that's impossible. ArenaNet suggesting 10 year old CPUs for the game doesn't help either.